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TIP O' THE MORNING: With the revival of “Perfidia” on records, one can expect to hear “Frenesi” (another substi tute of the non-ASCAP period of radio) getting a renewal, too. ¢¢ 4 CRES OF SKY,’’ WHICH Arthur Kreutz and Zoe Lund Schiller wrote for the opening of the Fine Arts center of the University of Arkansas in 1950, will be produced in New York in May. The Wisconsin-born composer and his wife, a novelist, are rewriting the show for its presen tation May 7-14 at Columbia uni versity. “It is something new in the direction that the American thea ter is now moving,’ Kreutz wrote us. ‘We'll have to invent a new word, because it’s not opera, not a musical, not a musical play— so a new category is needed. It is a blending of drama, music, and choreography from American sources — an American panora ma.’ Kreutz is a native of La Crosse who came to Madison to study engineering but who de cided that music was his real calling and switched to the Uni versity of Wisconsin music school. He taught violin here and was frequently a soloist with Madison organizations. But composition was his field, he found, and he won the Prix de Rome with one of his works. His music has been played by topflight orchestras across the country. Miss Schiller (or Mrs. Kreutz) is the author of “A Candle for a Star,” which will be published April 1 by MacMillan. It is a story of the Pacific Northwest, with its central character a Wisconsin boy who ran away from home. The author, too, is a Wisconsin native—she was born in Milwaukee. FLAGSTAD: Mme. Kirsten Flagstad will make what she has announced as her last concert broadcast when she ap pears on the N. Y. Philharmonic Symphony program over CBS at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. With Dr. Bruno Walter as accompanist, she will sing Richard Wagner's five “Wesendonck” songs. She will also sing the Immolation scene from “Goetterdammerung,” with the orchestra. Studio Plays: Three one-act plays will be presented Tuesday and Wednesday in the Play Circle by Wisconsin Players. All will be directed by University of Wisconsin students. Curtain times will be 8 p.m. Tuesday and 3:30 and 8 p.m. Wednesday. The plays, directors, and casts: “Overruled,” by George Bernard Shaw; Doris Wickenberg, Rock ford, Ill., director; Barbara Mayer, Washington, D. C.; Glen Potter, Milwaukee; Richard Mason, Boston, Mass., and Marie IIezzi, Long Is land, N. Y. (Director’s assistant, Eve Joan Peal, Green Bay.) “Cathleen in Houlihan,” by William Butler Yeats; Anne Clague Soule, Madison, director; Charles Fine, Mineral Point; Bob Rueping, Oconomowoc; Dolores Kosbar, Rhinelander; Ronald Haase, Milwaukee; Talie Handler, Indiana, Ba., and Diane Derus, Kaukauna. (Direc tor’s assistant, Don Horton, Mil waukee). “Hello Out There,” by William Saroyan; Tom Detienne, Milwau kee, director; Don Soule, Madison; Judy Lenett, Chicago; Frank Matu sinec, Milwaukee; Norman Peter sen, Wauwatosa; Leo Joseph, Fond du Lac, and William Hansen. (Di rector’s assistant, Diane Schulman, Jamaica, N. Y.) MISCELLANY: Prof. Ronald E. Mitchell will hold tryouts for “King John” at 3:30 and 7:30 p. m. today and Tuesday in the Memori al Union. Wisconsin Players will present it May 13-17. Mail orders are being received now for the next Players show,” Uncle Harry,” to be staged April 1-5. Martha Curti, Madison, is a member of the second violin sec tion of the Oberlin orchestra which will play Saturday in New York's Town Hall and Sunday at the Academy of Music in Philadel phia. The orchestra gave a home concert at Oberlin, O., Friday and will play Wednesday in Pittsburgh under auspices of the Women’s Auxiliary board of the Suburban General hospital. Miss Curti, a ju nior in the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, is the daughter of Prof Mrs. Merle E. Curti, 113 Ely pt. Four Kehl school dancers were in the Stoughton Lions club min strel show Friday and Saturday. They were Jerry and Tommy Miller, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Miller, 643 E. Dayton Jr., and Erica and Brenda Mjelde, daughters of Atty. and Mrs. B. A. _Mjelde, Stoughton. MAIL BAG: B. A. Smith, Rt. 2. DeForest, writes: “Re: Today's Quote by Jimmy Durante. “Why are we televisioners punished with the has-beens of Hollywood?” WORKSHOPS: Two workshops in theater lore will be held for com munity groups this spring by the Wisconsin Idea theater of the Uni versity of Wisconsin. They are planned for Whitewater Sunday, April 27, with the White water Little Theater as host group, and for Oshkosh Sunday, May 11, under sponsorship of the Oshkosh Community Players. The sessions, designed for the special interest of teachers and rural and community theater peo ple, will include such topics as di recting, elementary and advanced acting, techniques, makeup, light ling, set construction, and business management. The Oshkosh pro gram also will include a demon stration of the script-in-hand style of play reading. The Wisconsin Idea theater will ‘present the Wisconsin Players in “King John’’ in a special matinee for high school students and rural young people associated with the ‘state 4-H clubs in the Wisconsin LIGHT Arthur Nreutz ARTHUR KREUTZ
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Madison Wisconsin State Journal
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Mon, Mar 17, 1952
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